page le. Jaouary 25, 1978 - ‘North Shore News | oo po By TRISH HOPKINSON where. the UFO’s came. from CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF “3 i ” HE or why. Why. they ‘‘take THE THIRD KIND, starring — humans. and. later return.» - Richard | Dreyfuss amd - Francois Truffaut; written them to earth. Why people and directed by Steven Spi elberg [Columbia pietu j models in the living room. cl E what Francois Truffaut, : ose ncounters isa ‘director of reputation, tribute to man’s need to _ believe in. something beyond ‘himself. Since God is -no._ longer adequate, that need — and a thirst for baubled — technology can be indulged at the movies nowadays: so why the: need? Richard Dreyfuss. ‘rushes A small group- of Indiana a “around just like in Jaws, and people, including a. mother, and three-year-old son," farming family, two. senior ’ citizens and an engineer, see blinding lights" flashing through the sky. The follow- - ing night they go to the highway hoping for another — sighting. The U.F.O.’s, con- veniently keeping to the highway system, return, the - -boy is taken (nobody shows | how, but there’s’ a lot of. wind), and everyone gets | sunburned. on the street. in downtown squashed hi-rise, about the movie has not been successful. Living computer shadowed by The . Bionic The engineer’s new found | enthusiasm for _U.F.O.’s loses him his job. The group . is compelled by. something . unexplained to draw pictures lad wabatdetebinnd cw Whee awewaw Bt 4 of a table top mountain which suddenly occupies their minds. The engineer takes it a step further by bringing the garden mud into the house and building a model in the living room. His wife wasn’t too happy when he’d tried the same thing with the mashed potatoes at dinner, so he loses her too. if Steven. - Technical production - excellent, the actors are abandoned planes lost in a foreign desert in. World War Il had actually been taken by the little green men without _ telling us what for? These strong indications of .character and story which do create a bit of tension are never quite supported by the rest of the movie. What we learn is that Dreyfuss is neurotic and loves UFO’s. That beings from outerspace are shadowed creatures the size of. children. And if wafting creatures with. em- bryonic heads suit your idea script inadequacies is the fact that you won’t discover from the movie what a Close Encounter of the Third Kind buy the book of the movie: If you don’t mind cheating or First Kind is Sighting a UFO, of little men from Mars, the Second Physical you'll feel satisfied by the Evidence and the Third Kind. end of the movie. -is Contact. is doing in the movie at all. He « - speaks. French’ ‘and someone. - oe A i.” Frencl doesn’t help: ihe plot ‘much, : controlled lives and. over-— > What’ “we ‘don’ t ‘earn are — o obsessed with making . wage “ 8 -- blend. : of -: classics, There’s also the mystery of Spielberg directs his extras with care. 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